The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-26

forward and is the only man IN town credited
| of his mouth at the same time. OF it is
illusion resulting from the rapidity with
which the Colonel shifts his cigar.
DR. WILHELM VoLcKdAR the Royal Prussan
Music Director and professor at the academy of
| St Cecilia at Rome who recently died at the
/ of seventy five, was the author of more than
600 ecclesiastical compositions.
| WURTEMBURG, Germany, has remarkable
| mind reader in the person of peasant girl nine
| teen years old. who, if asked question in the
| day thine in a language unknown to her will re-
spond to it after dark in the same language. She
| is said to shed her hair periodically.
| Col. ANDREW JACKSON, q. son Of the adopted
| son of Old Hickory, is now man of fifty years
| of age. Colonel jackson is graduate of West
| Point, and was in the regular army when the
| civil war broke out. He resigned to JOIN the
confederate army and at the t ime of the fall of
Vcksburg had charge of the defenses along the
Mississippi.
DIR. JOHN VANsANT. OF the United States
Marine Hospital at ST. Louis, reports that he has
| succeeded in obtaining photographs by the light
of fire flies, and claims be the pioneer Of this
curious If not highly useful Developments of the
Photographic art He placed twelve fre-f1es in
three ounce bottle. covering its mouth with
fine white bobinet. The average duration of the
flash of each insect half a second. The
time OF exposure was fifty flashes.
A WHITE MOUNTAIN guide says: when I am
in the woods never use compass; in fact, l
don't need any. There are three sure ways that
/ have for finding the points of the compass.
You will notice that three fourths of the moss
on trees grows the north side the heaviest
boughs spruce trees always on the south
side, and, thirdly. the topmost tw ig of every
injured hemlock tips the east. You just remem-
Der those things and you'll never be lost"
DIR. WILLIAM A. HAMMOND has just been
making a scientific examination of Jay Gould's
head. For this purpose he has used very deli
te ipstr naut( I he pvaO Of
fessOr of Harvard College. who now lives in
England), which is said to tell the variations of
the temperature of the head and prove incipient
paralysis and other diseases Of the brain with
unerring accuracy. MIR. Goulds head bore the
examination we'll, and is pronounced to De in
perfect condition.
GERMAN papers relate that the singer Marie
Fullo. who recently died in St. Petersburg, left
diamonds valued at 80, 900 francs to the eldest
son of the Car. She stated in her will that she
selected him as her heir because she had
ceived the diamonds from relative of his
and knew of no one better entitled to them than
the heir presumptive of the Russian crown. 1t
is said that the young Grand Duke Nicholas in
tends to turn the diamonds over to several rel-
glous Institutions
AN Irishmau. Francis Hazlett. has invented,
and an Irish company has brought out. me-
chanical apparatus for blowing glass bottles,
which dispenses with the old-fashioned method
of blowing glass by the mouth. Hitherto it has
been considered impossible to improve upon the
human lungs and the elass-blowers of the
world have gone on putting themselves away at
forty-two years Of age, which is the low average
of life among these handicraftsmen. The new
invention dispenses with the human lungs and
injects the air into the molten glass by an air
pump, not unlike ordinary syringe in shape
and action This is fastened to the ordinary
blow-pipe, and makes little difference to the
workman In handling.
THE key to the casemate in which Jefferson
Davis was confined in Fortress Monroe WAS Sc
cured by one of the New York volunteer iremen
during the recent trip TO Philadelphia. and will
be placed among the interesting collection of
souvenirs already at the rooms of this organize
ton. 1t has been in the possession of Edward
Hay, a soldier in Battery G, Fifth United States
Artillery, stationed at the fortress when the
confederate leader Was brought there. 1t is OF
brass, and weighs about three-Quarters OF
pound, and has the number twenty-five stamped
on it. Mr.. Hay. who was old Philadelphia
fireman, parted with the cherished memento in
a moment of enthusiasm engendered by the
presence of the New York firemen at the cell
ebration of the adoption of the Constitution last
week.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Chicago Times has
interviewed many persons in Kansas about the
Experiment made there with female suffrage. A
fair specimen of most of the answers he got is
this: 1--WE sick Of it. / believed in it to be-
gin with, but it doesn't work. One trouble is,
there are but few of the better womenswho will
vote, and then those who do want i'm
maculate candidate who can't by any possibility
be elected and they will vote for him, and this
splits the ticket. The doubtful and oblectiona-
BILE class of women vote, every one of them,
while hardly one-tenth OF the better class of
women go to the polls, and this inevitably elects
the worst candidate. AS the majority of the
whose votes are desirable don't care
for the franchise, l want to see the law re-
pealed."